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Autocracy Inc. The Dictators Who Want to Run the World [electronic resource] : by Applebaum, Anne.aut; cloudLibrary;
From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them. We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st century, that bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are underpinned not by one dictator, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, surveillance technologies, and professional propagandists, all of which operate across multiple regimes, from China to Russia to Iran. Corrupt companies in one country do business with corrupt companies in another. The police in one country can arm and train the police in another, and propagandists share resources and themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America. International condemnation and economic sanctions cannot move the autocrats. Even popular opposition movements, from Venezuela to Hong Kong to Moscow, don't stand a chance. The members of Autocracy, Inc, aren't linked by a unifying ideology, like communism, but rather a common desire for power, wealth, and impunity. In this urgent treatise, which evokes George Kennan's essay calling for "containment" of the Soviet Union, Anne Applebaum calls for the democracies to fundamentally reorient their policies to fight a new kind of threat.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Geopolitics; Political Ideologies; 21st Century;
© 2024., McClelland & Stewart,
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Autocracy, Inc. The Dictators Who Want to Run the World [electronic resource] : by Applebaum, Anne.aut; Applebaum, Anne.nrt; cloudLibrary;
From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st century, that bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are underpinned not by one dictator, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, surveillance technologies, and professional propagandists, all of which operate across multiple regimes, from China to Russia to Iran. Corrupt companies in one country do business with corrupt companies in another. The police in one country can arm and train the police in another, and propagandists share resources and themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America. International condemnation and economic sanctions cannot move the autocrats. Even popular opposition movements, from Venezuela to Hong Kong to Moscow, don't stand a chance. The members of Autocracy, Inc, aren't linked by a unifying ideology, like communism, but rather a common desire for power, wealth, and impunity. In this urgent treatise, which evokes George Kennan's essay calling for "containment" of the Soviet Union, Anne Applebaum calls for the democracies to fundamentally reorient their policies to fight a new kind of threat.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Geopolitics; Political Ideologies; 21st Century;
© 2024., Penguin Random House,
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Flashpoint. [videorecording] / by Colantoni, Enrico.; Dillion, Hugh.; Frazee, David.; Johnson, Amy Jo.; Paetkau, David.; CTV Television Network.; Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (Firm); Phase 4 Films (Firm);
Music composed by Amin Bhatia, Ari Posner.Amy Jo Johnson, Enrico Colantoni, Hugh Dillon, David Paetkau, Mark Taylor.Depicts the emotional journey into the tough, risk-filled lives of a unique unit that rescues hostages, busts gangs, defuses bombs, climbs the sides of buildings, and talks down suicidal teens. Members of this highly-skilled tactical team are also trained in negotiating, profiling, and getting inside the suspect's head to diffuse the situation to try to save lives. Includes all thirteen action-packed episodes, plus music, a featurette, and character study.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Action and adventure television programs.; Hostage negotiations; Police; Police; Problem-oriented policing;
© c2012., Distributed by Phase 4 Films,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Flashpoint. [videorecording] / by Colantoni, Enrico.; Dillion, Hugh.; Frazee, David.; Johnson, Amy Jo.; Paetkau, David.; CTV Television Network.; Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (Firm); Phase 4 Films (Firm);
Music composed by Amin Bhatia, Ari Posner.Amy Jo Johnson, Enrico Colantoni, Hugh Dillon, David Paetkau, Mark Taylor.Depicts the emotional journey into the tough, risk-filled lives of a unique unit that rescues hostages, busts gangs, defuses bombs, climbs the sides of buildings, and talks down suicidal teens. Members of this highly-skilled tactical team are also trained in negotiating, profiling, and getting inside the suspect's head to diffuse the situation to try to save lives. Includes all thirteen action-packed episodes, plus music, a featurette, and character study.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Action and adventure television programs.; Hostage negotiations; Police; Police; Problem-oriented policing;
© c2012., Distributed by Phase 4 Films,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Flashpoint. [videorecording] / by Colantoni, Enrico.; Dillion, Hugh.; Frazee, David.; Johnson, Amy Jo.; Paetkau, David.; CTV Television Network.; Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (Firm); Phase 4 Films (Firm);
Music composed by Amin Bhatia, Ari Posner.Hugh Dillion, Amy Jo Johnson, David Paetkau, Enrico Colantoni.Depicts the emotional journey into the tough, risk-filled lives of a group of cops in the SRU. This unique unit rescues hostages, busts gangs, defuses bombs, climbs the sides of buildings, and talks down suicidal teens. The highly-skilled tactical team is also trained in negotiating, profiling, and getting inside the suspect's head to diffuse the situation to try and save lives. Includes nine action-packed episodes, plus featurettes.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Action and adventure television programs.; Hostage negotiations; Police; Police; Problem-oriented policing;
© c2010., Phase 4 Films,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Flashpoint. [videorecording] / by Colantoni, Enrico.; Dillion, Hugh.; Frazee, David.; Johnson, Amy Jo.; Paetkau, David.; CTV Television Network.; Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (Firm); Phase 4 Films (Firm);
Music composed by Amin Bhatia, Ari Posner.Hugh Dillion, Amy Jo Johnson, David Paetkau, Enrico Colantoni.Depicts the emotional journey into the tough, risk-filled lives of a group of cops in the SRU. This unique unit rescues hostages, busts gangs, defuses bombs, climbs the sides of buildings, and talks down suicidal teens. The highly-skilled tactical team is also trained in negotiating, profiling, and getting inside the suspect's head to diffuse the situation to try and save lives. Includes nine action-packed episodes, plus featurettes.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Action and adventure television programs.; Hostage negotiations; Police; Police; Problem-oriented policing;
© c2010., Phase 4 Films,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Murder on Mustique / by Glenconner, Anne,1932-author.;
Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain, unwilling to let summer's partying end. American heiress Amanda Fortini is one such thrill-seeker - until she heads out for a morning swim and doesn't return. Detective Sergeant Solomon Nile is just 28 years old and the island's only fully trained police officer. He quickly realizes he needs to contact Lord and Lady Blake, who bought the island decades ago and have invested time, money and love creating a paradise. Jasper is in St Lucia designing a new village of luxury villas but Lady Veronica (Vee to her friends) catches a plane immediately. Her beloved god-daughter, Lily, is on the island and this disappearance has alarming echoes of what happened to Lily's mother many years ago. Lady Vee would never desert a friend in need, and she can keep a cool head in a crisis. When Amanda's body is found, a murder investigation begins. Nile knows the killer must be an islander because flights and ferry crossings have stopped due to the storm warning, but the local community isn't co-operating. And then the storm hits, and someone else disappears.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Police; Rich people; Coral reefs and islands; Severe storms; Missing persons; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Flashpoint. [videorecording] / by Colantoni, Enrico.; Dillion, Hugh.; Frazee, David.; Johnson, Amy Jo.; Paetkau, David.; CTV Television Network.; Phase 4 Films (Firm);
Disc 1. Broken peace -- No kind of life -- Run to me -- Eyes in -- Sons of the father.Disc 2. A world of their own -- Below the surface -- Forget oblivion -- We take care of our own.Disc 3. Lawmen -- Fit for duty -- Keep the peace, part one -- Keep the peace, part two.Music composed by Amin Bhatia, Ari Posner.Amy Jo Johnson, Enrico Colantoni, Hugh Dillon, David Paetkau, Mark Taylor.Depicts the emotional journey into the tough, risk-filled lives of a unique unit that rescues hostages, busts gangs, defuses bombs, climbs the sides of buildings, and talks down suicidal teens. Members of this highly-skilled tactical team are also trained in negotiating, profiling, and getting inside the suspect's head to diffuse the situation to try to save lives.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Action and adventure television programs.; Hostage negotiations; Police; Police; Problem-oriented policing;
© c2013., Distributed by Phase 4 Films,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The crash / by Furnivall, Kate,author.;
Paris, 1933. Two days before Christmas, the express train to Strasbourg crashes into a local train in the winter darkness outside Paris. On board in Gilles Malroux, a man with a strong reason to avoid the police. In the mayhem of the accident he swaps identity papers with one of the other victims. Giles tries to flee, but, severely injured, finds himself taken to the house of a woman he doesn't know who nurses him. But is the bitter medicine in the spoon she keeps putting to his lips healing him or harming him? Camille Malroux is Gilles's sister. She works for the French Civil Service and is trying to climb the ladder of respectability after a childhood in poverty. When she is informed by the police that her brother is seriously injured in hospital, she rushes to his bedside, to discover it's not Gilles. Only by digging the true identity of the bandaged man in the hospital bed can she hope to trace her brother and save him.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mistaken identity; Railroad accidents; Secrecy; Survival;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Urgent matters / by Rodríguez, Paula(Paula Leonor),author.; Moses, Sarah,translator.; translation of:Rodríguez, Paula(Paula Leonor).Causas urgentes.English.;
A train crashes in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, leading forty-three people dead. A prayer card of Saint Expeditus, the patron saint of urgent matters, is left blowing above the wreckage. Hugo, a criminal on the run for murder, is also on the train. He seizes his chance to sneak out of the wreckage unsuspected, abandoning his possessions -- and, he hopes, his identity -- among bodies mangled beyond all recognition. The police suspect he's still alive, but are left scrambling to keep up as the media releases a barrage of misinformation and rumours as to his whereabouts. Whipping through the Buenos Aires mafia to the families affected by crime, the investigation uncovers the corrupt influences propping up power, and asks the ultimate question: will justice ever be served?
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Noir fiction.; Novels.; Criminals; Murder; Railroad accidents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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